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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Welcome Jason! (October 2009)

My former colleagues from Southeast Regional Library welcomed me as an observer to their SILS training sessions that they were doing at the Regina Public Library training room prior to the move to a province-wide library consortium over ten (!) years ago. (Look at the size of those monitors!)

¶ Posted 24 March 2022 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Universal Basic Income: Who Pays For It? (Not You!)

Saw this article explaining how the government could pay for a full Universal Basic Income program by properly taxing corporations, wealthy individuals and financial transactions. The article is definitely worth a read!

¶ Posted 22 March 2022 § Canada § Infographic § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “The Main Event” – 2009 Canadian Library Association Conference @adr @jessamyn

I have so many fond memories of different experiences during my fifteen (!) years as a public librarian. One of the most memorable was being invited to represent public libraries in a pre-conference session put on by the Emerging Technologies group of CLA. As if being the representative for basically all public libraries in the […]

¶ Posted 10 March 2022 § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: metafilter

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – MLIS Student Council (Fall 2006)

Hard to believe library school was so long ago…

¶ Posted 03 March 2022 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ontario

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Premier Scott Moe Declares A State of Emergency (March 2020)

Now that Saskatchewan is in the midst of being one of the first provinces to remove basically all Covid-19 restrictions, stopping reporting Covid-19 stats except on a weekly basis and just generally pretending the pandemic is over because…reasons, I thought it’d be a nice bookend to revisit that initial press conference where Premier Moe first […]

¶ Posted 17 February 2022 § Infographic § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, economics, saskatchewan, science

Saturday Snap – #WhyIMissedTheProtestForFreedom #FluTrucksKlan

First, my wife and I took our daughter to her art class where she created and learned with about ten other kids… Before her class started, we went into the centre’s art gallery to check out the latest installation. We enjoyed this show with a handful of other people who were in the gallery including […]

¶ Posted 05 February 2022 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, economics, history, saskatchewan, science, travel

8 Positive Impacts of the Covid Pandemic

I was thinking about making my own list but this YouTube video captures most of what I’d put on my list fairly well. I’m especially intrigued by the way Covid is going to change the workplace/increase acceptance of work-from-home for those who can do so…

¶ Posted 02 February 2022 § Internet § Jobs § List § News § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, economics, health, science

Secular Sunday – Argument From Poor Design

There’s a lot of reasons to not believe in God but the “Argument From Poor Design” – basically a list of reasons a perfect creator still put a bunch of useless/poorly designed parts into human beings and other animals is one of my favourites.